A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from 1741 to 1770: To which are Added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between 1763 and 1787, Published from the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, M.a, المجلد 4Rivington, 1809 |
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Adieu affection affectionate love amidst amusement attention Bath beautiful believe best wishes bless Bolton-row Carter charming cheerful Clarges Street Clarges-street comfort Deal Deal Castle dear friend delightful disappointed Dunbar Eastry ELIZABETH CARTER endeavour England enjoy fear feel give glad going grieve Handcock happy head heard heart heartily Heaven hope Howsham imagination Ireland journey kind kindly Lady Dartrey let me hear LETTER LETTER live London look Lord Lyttelton love to dear Lucan Margate meet melancholy mention mind Miss Cooper Miss Sharpe Montagu never night obliged Old Windsor pain party perfectly perhaps Pitt pleasure poor pray write present prospect quiet racter reason received regret rejoice remember rendered seems situation society spirits Stourhead suffered Sunning Hill sure tagu tell thank thing thought tion town Tunbridge uncomfortable Vesey Vesey's walk weather week Wingham winter wretched your's
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الصفحة 58 - ... raving and blaspheming at a gaming-table, must be an aggregate of all the follies and all the crimes that a worthless head and a profligate heart can collect from all parts of the globe.
الصفحة 110 - He died of a fever, poor man ! I am sincerely glad to hear he has no family, so his loss will not be felt in domestic life.
الصفحة 94 - Letter after his death. and uncT consequently with a heart full of virtuous dispositions. Had his head been ever so speculative and philosophical, with the pride and malevolence, and dissoluteness of Bolingbroke, or the pert paradoxical vanity of Hume ; with all his enquiries he had remained an unbeliever.
الصفحة 50 - ... is the very castle once haunted by Hamlet's ghost, but of this I have no positive assurance ; though, as it is at Elsineur, I think such an imagination as yours and mine may fairly enough make out the rest. In the letter, which the King of Denmark wrote to ours, he only mentioned, in general terms, that the queen had behaved in a manner which obliged him to imprison her, but that from regard to his Majesty her life should be safe.
الصفحة 345 - I am sure I need not say how happy I should be to have you beneath my roof.
الصفحة 116 - The vrcrld is always qu;.ck-sighte¿ enough to distinguish between the mere rouge and enamel of art iii eial good breeding, and those genuine graces which naturally spring from principles and dispositions, of which unhappily his Lordship seems to have been totally ignorant. All this may, I think, be fairly said on many of the most specious and plausible parts of the collection : others are more openly detestable. That a father should seriously...
الصفحة 109 - Aikin, and Mr. Bryant's Analysis of Ancient Mythology, of which I have read one volume in quarto. It is a work of immense learning, and very great ingenuity, but has to me the fault of almost all the mythological systems I ever read} the want of sufficient proof. When one is professedly invited into the regions of fiction, the further one travels the better. Imagination has a natural right to take the lead, and reason very quietly falls asleep, and never interferes in the progress. But whenever an...
الصفحة 110 - Fault is in myself that I do not feel more convinced of the truth of his system. I am told the second volume is much more satisfactory than the first. I find it is a fashionable book, from which one would...
الصفحة 205 - I am for such a habitation. I had the happiness you kindly wished me of finding my friends, I thank God, very well. Amidst all the gratitude which I owe, and which I can never sufficiently pay, to Heaven, for the greater number of those who still survive, I feel much dejection at missing those who once used to welcome my return, and now welcome it no more! But th'ey, I trust, are at peace. And this thought...
الصفحة 85 - ... violence beat upon him. In all the conversations upon his misfortunes to which I have been witness, I do not recollect ever to have heard him utter a single murmur or complaint. It pleased God to try him in the " furnace of affliction," and like gold he came out with the greater purity and the brighter lustre.